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The Atlantic Current Could Flip Europe’s Climate Upside Down, Scientists Warn
Europe could one day become dramatically colder even as the planet as a whole keeps getting hotter. That sounds impossible until you look beneath the surface of the Atlantic, where a vast system of ocean currents moves tropical heat northward and helps keep much of Europe far milder than its latitude would suggest. Scientists studying…
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The Atlantic’s ‘Monster Web’ of Currents Could Be Heading Toward a Dangerous Collapse
Far beneath the surface of the Atlantic, a gigantic network of ocean currents is constantly moving heat, salt, carbon and oxygen around the planet. Now scientists are racing into some of the most hostile waters on Earth to determine whether this enormous system is becoming dangerously unstable, with consequences that could eventually reach the United…
